Sanjib Acharya just became the most recent casualty of Vinny Censabella’s hot streak here late in the Pinktober $565. Holding on a flop, Acharya got all-in for about 200,000 with a flush draw. Censabella called and turned over for trips. The turn and river came diamondless and Acharya never improved.

He was eliminated in 25th place while Censabella crossed 2,000,000 chips.

There was an early-position raise to 28,000 and Vinny Censabella called from late position as did Joseph Skarzynski on the button. It was on massive start-of-day chip leader, Fernando Rodriguez, who’d sputtered as of late to claim a mortal stack. Rodriguez shoved the small blind for 373,000 total and it was back on the original raiser.

Fernando Rodriguez shoves the small blind for 373,000

He folded after a minute or two leaving it up to Censabella who called without hesitation. Skarzynski got out of the way and it was a clash between the current and former chip leader.

Censabella: Rodriguez:

Runout:

Rodriguez was caught with ace-high and improving to a pair of threes wasn’t enough. He was eliminated by Censabella in 34th after beginning the day with more than 1,000,000 chips — twice that of second place.

Censabella stacked a massive pot and took the chip lead as players went on their second break.

Start-of-day chip leader Fernando Rodriguez is back to reality with 690,000 chips. While it’s still good for one of the biggest in the room, he’s come from a long way from the 1,000,000 chips he slept on overnight.

Vinny Censabella

Play is going deeper into the money and the stacks are leveling out with Vinny Censabella (820,000), Trevor Hurst (705,000) and Anthony Dianaty (550,000) among the leaders.

There was a quick succession of bustouts as players headed on break with a hand still going on Table 12. At the time, just 52 remained with 51 paying and they were already two minutes into break. Chris Gilkey was at risk preflop for his last roughly 175,000 versus David DiBernardi. Gilkey had the best of it, but needed to fade some outs.

Gilkey: DiBernardi:

Runout:

DiBernardi spiked his queen to bust Gilkey on the stone bubble. With that, all tables were off to break and in the money.

Karl Manouchakian recently hit the rail coming out on the bad end of a cooler. Manouchakian was in a heads-up pot versus Wil McCraney and the board laid . Manouchakian had for a fullhouse and shoved the rover. McCraney snapped off turning over for a rivered better fullhouse. With that, Manouchakian was eliminated shy of the money.

Wally Maddah open-shoved his last 32,000 from early position. Eric Mutschler plopped in a pile more from late position and the button and blinds folded. Maddah’s tournament life was on the line versus a lone opponent.

Wally Maddah open-shoves his last 32,000

Mutschler: Maddah:

Runout:

The runout

Maddah’s ace-10 was no good and he was eliminated at the hands of Mutschler.

The clock hits 2pm and cards are in the air for Day 2 of the Pinktober Poker Open $565. Fernando Rodriguez begins the day with massive chip lead holding 1,035,000 chips. The next closest stack of 512,000 belongs to Wil McCraney.

Five starting flights are in the books in the Pinktober Poker Open headliner $565 buy-in, $200,000 guarantee and it’s on to Day 2. The total field topped out at 505 entries and it’s narrowed to just 78 remaining following 14 levels of play. They return today at 2pm to jockey for a piece of the $252,500 prize pool that’s spotlighted by a $49,711 top prize. In addition, the top four finishers are set to head home with a $1,650 seat in the property’s $500,000 guaranteed December Winter Poker Open Main Event.

Fernando Rodriguez tops the counts but needs to keep up a break-neck pace versus the likes of Anthony Dianaty, David DiBernardi and John Dolan who are all in the top 25.

Only the top 51 players are set to finish in the money with a min-cash earning $1,352. Play should move a bit to start as Level 15 through 19 remain at 40 minutes before jumping to 60 throughout the rest of the event.

Updates will begin at 2pm and run all the way until there’s a champion. Good luck, players!

With Flight D playing down closer toward end of day, and Flight E settling in for a long, 10 hour night that wont wrap until after 4am, media staff is heading home for the evening. Complete chip counts, table draws and payout information will be posted Sunday by 8am. Play resumes at 2pm and tournament updates will continue all the way until there’s a champion in the Pinktober $565.

Players are back from their final break of the night and cards are in the air. Play has reached the deep stages of the flight and there are a number of big stacks emerging including a three-headed monster at Table 20 — David DiBernardi, Brian Hooser and Karl Manouchakian.

The above trio makes up three of the biggest stacks in the room and they all share a table. They’re battle-tested and ready for some tough play as they’ve settled in for another couple hours of action before their night ends.

David DiBernardi put an exclamation point on his taking of the chip lead, flopping Broadway and sending an opponent to the rail.

The flop was and DiBernardi’s opponent announced, “All-in,” for more than 60,000. DiBernardi snapped having the opponent covered and quickly turned over for the nuts Broadway plus a Royal Flush draw. The opponent had a measly pair and only had slim hopes for a chop.

The turn and river fell and DiBernardi grew his stack to over 350,000.